{"title":"Multimodality in M. Kovner's Ezekiel's World","authors":"I. Elkad-Lehman","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0186","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The groundbreaking graphic novel discussed in this article tests the boundaries of its genre and its growing acceptance. The case study of Michael Kovner's book, Ezekiel's World, and its adaptation to the theater examines how multimodality shapes reading processes, and how the multiple modalities used express and shape sociopolitical views and conduct. The article's reading of the artistic-graphic novel addresses the genre in general, as well as the specific graphic elements, languages, paintings, family photographs, poems and documents embedded within it. In reading the play, it addresses the adaptation process, the animation of the paintings and the music composed for the poems included in the book. The interpretive process examines the interrelations between the modalities in the works, as well as their discourse, design, production and dissemination in the sociopolitical context of Israel in the first decades of the twenty-first century. The study contributes to the literature by demonstrating a methodology for multimodal reading, calling to expand traditional boundaries of literature and to reexamine the definition of \"Hebrew literature\" based on that reading.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"186 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88812063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Gorbach's The Notorious Ben Hecht","authors":"Jonathan L. Friedmann","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0280","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"53 1","pages":"280 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85733128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Crim's Planet Auschwitz","authors":"V. Brook","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0274","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"27 1","pages":"274 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90967588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Toffell's Jews, Cinema and Public Life in Interwar Britain","authors":"J. Young","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0255","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"61 1","pages":"255 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88017446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Waters's Miriam and Youssef","authors":"Efrat Urbach, Netta Schramm","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0293","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"62 1","pages":"293 - 302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72961738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Cazenave's Archive of the Catastrophe and McGlothlin, Prager, and Zisselsberger's Construction of Testimony","authors":"M. Berkowitz","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0284","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"86 1","pages":"284 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80588998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Younger Generation: Jews and Diaspora in Frank Capra’s America","authors":"Jeffrey Haus","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.7.1.0081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.7.1.0081","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The Younger Generation (1929) represented Columbia Pictures’ response to the success of Warner Bros.’ 1927 hit The Jazz Singer. Directed by Frank Capra on the cusp of his professional breakthrough in the 1930s, this story of a Jewish immigrant family in New York is notable in its own right. Most significantly, the film combines motifs of the Jewish “ghetto” film with Capra’s creation of symbiotic relationships between his characters and the places they inhabit. This article argues that Capra’s portrayal of authentic Jewish “place” in The Younger Generation cinematically relocates the source of Jewish cultural authenticity to American soil. Analyzing these themes situates the film in its historical context and in Capra’s filmography.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"96 1","pages":"101 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82626478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Isenberg’s We’ll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood’s Most Beloved Movie","authors":"M. Berkowitz","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.7.1.0114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.7.1.0114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"18 1","pages":"114 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85550786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Wave of Their Own: How Jewish Filmmakers Invented the New Hollywood","authors":"V. Brook","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.7.1.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.7.1.0048","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The Jewish New Wave in American film of the 1960s and 1970s is old news as far as actors (Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Woody Allen, Richard Dreyfuss, et al.) are concerned. What has been almost totally neglected is the even more overarching if not definitive contribution of Jewish directors to the formation of the New Hollywood (1967–1980) writ large. This article explores the main factors behind this remarkable influence and examines in greater detail some of the primary figures behind it: Arthur Penn, Mike Nichols, Stanley Kubrick, Sidney Lumet, and Woody Allen. These filmmakers’ work not only played a seminal role in the emergence of the New Hollywood but, the article argues, Jewish elements—some explicit, others subtextual—are clearly discernible as well.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"50 1","pages":"48 - 80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77686687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Miller’s Studying Waltz with Bashir","authors":"Dan Chyutin","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.7.1.0102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.7.1.0102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":"102 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88001520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}